Is the plan to make the advanced area password protected and only give the password to the worthy? Will people be able to read but not comment unless they have enough karma?
Also, any time you want to use a dictionary definition to make your point, don’t. It’s obnoxious and unhelpful. It skews your argument from being about reality to being about words.
You talk about elitists getting treated like scum, and yet all over the world people earn high salaries and are treated like princes for being “elite” in dozens of fields. Being elite is being awesome. We WANT people who want to be awesome, and don’t want people who think that being awesome sucks.
Using rationality as a basis for rule makes no sense anyway. If you have a better map of the territory, people should update because you have a better map (assuming you overcome inferential distances). Forcing an update because you want to rule would only amount to an appeal to authority or coercion. That’s not rational. If you show them a more complete map and they update, that isn’t about you—you should be updating your map when the time comes, too. It’s the territory that rules us all. You are only sharing your map.
I can’t even figure out what you mean by this quote. If people aren’t rational, and don’t update, then the rulers should be the ones who DO.
I have decided to try and understand other people’s ideas about elitism, because I realized that I don’t know enough about them. Would you like to explain yours further?
Is the plan to make the advanced area password protected and only give the password to the worthy? Will people be able to read but not comment unless they have enough karma?
Also, any time you want to use a dictionary definition to make your point, don’t. It’s obnoxious and unhelpful. It skews your argument from being about reality to being about words.
You talk about elitists getting treated like scum, and yet all over the world people earn high salaries and are treated like princes for being “elite” in dozens of fields. Being elite is being awesome. We WANT people who want to be awesome, and don’t want people who think that being awesome sucks.
I can’t even figure out what you mean by this quote. If people aren’t rational, and don’t update, then the rulers should be the ones who DO.
I have decided to try and understand other people’s ideas about elitism, because I realized that I don’t know enough about them. Would you like to explain yours further?